How fish can still be part of a more sustainable food future A fish-based diet is good for the environment and people’s health. nadianb/Shutterstock Dave Little, University of Stirling and Richard Newton, University of Stirling If you want to reduce your personal impact on the environment, cutting back on eating animal products is one of the … Read more
IPCC climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth’s oceans and ice – a lead author explains what the warnings mean What might seem like small changes, like a degree of warming, can have big consequences. AP Photo/John McConnico Robert Kopp, Rutgers University Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the … Read more
Today, Monday 9 August 2021, the IPCC Working Group 1 presented the sixth assessment report. Human influence on the climate is now “unequivocal” Whopping 3,949 pages about the physical basis of climate change When I downloaded it from the website, I realized that this report contains a whopping 3,949 pages. So if I read one … Read more
On International World Oceans Day (8 June 2021), National Geographic announced that it officially recognises the Southern Ocean as Earth’s fifth ocean. The new ocean, the Southern Ocean, is defined by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) that surrounds Antarctica and extends from the continent’s coastline to 60 degrees south latitude, excluding the Drake Passage and … Read more
… to drive ocean knowledge revolution In the context of global celebrations for World Oceans Day, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission announced the first Actions officially endorsed as part of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, 2021-2030 (the ‘Ocean Decade’). Subject to a competitive selection process with hundreds of applications, the endorsed … Read more
Marine life is fleeing the equator to cooler waters. History tells us this could trigger a mass extinction event Shutterstock Anthony Richardson, The University of Queensland; Chhaya Chaudhary, University of Auckland; David Schoeman, University of the Sunshine Coast, and Mark John Costello, University of Auckland The tropical water at the equator is renowned for having … Read more
In one of our last posts, we were proposing to think about the possibility of establishing mariculture here in Jamaica. A study of the University of California with the title “The ecological and economic potential for offshore mariculture in the Caribbean” stated that Jamaica has the “most productive farm sites” in the Caribbean. OpenBlue, a … Read more
“The picture above shows the plastic garbage in the Royal Jamaica Yacht Club (RJYC). After weeks without rain, a heavy downpour washed Kingston’s trash into the bay. As is so often the case, plastic waste begins with a lack of environmental awareness on land.” (Ambassador J.C. Schmillen – VP Global Affairs, Caribbean Maritime University) Read … Read more
In a new post I present an argumentation paper to establish a Caribbean Mariculture Research Centre at CMU. And it essentially aims at establishing a mariculture industry in Jamaica. I know that it is a massive project, which needs a lot of commitment and investment. I understand that this cannot fall from the sky overnight. But somehow, we … Read more
An ocean like no other: the Southern Ocean’s ecological richness and significance for global climate Shutterstock/CherylRamalho Ceridwen Fraser, University of Otago; Christina Hulbe, University of Otago; Craig Stevens, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, and Huw Griffiths, British Antarctic Survey In 2018, a map named after an oceanographer went viral. The so-called Spilhaus projection, … Read more